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La Noria, Málaga property and area FAQs

La Noria is an NLS property-search area in Málaga province within the Nerja municipality context. The current public NLS inventory contains 1 listing, including 1 villa.

Place and geography

What kind of place is La Noria?

Nerja (pronounced [ˈneɾxa]) is a municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is part of the comarca of La Axarquía. It is on the country's southern Mediterranean coast, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of Málaga.

How is La Noria organised into official settlements?

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 4 official population nuclei for Nerja. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Nerja, at a recorded elevation of approximately 24 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Imaroga (785 residents in the cited settlement record), Maro (633 residents in the cited settlement record), and Macaca (560 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

What else is documented about La Noria?

A popular and widely repeated folk etymology claims the name comes from Arabic for "abundant source", but the Arabic form Nāriŷa itself stems from an unknown pre-Islamic name.

What is the recorded municipal area for La Noria?

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 85.0 square kilometres for Nerja municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Which province is La Noria in?

La Noria is shown within Málaga province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

Does La Noria have a linked official website?

Yes. The structured municipality record includes an official website field. NLS treats that as identity context and not as property-market evidence.

How does NLS avoid mixing La Noria with similarly named places?

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 29075 and keeps the province label Málaga. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

People and households

What is the latest official population shown for La Noria?

The latest imported INE population for Nerja municipality is 21,958, for period 2023.

How has the recorded population changed in La Noria?

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Nerja municipality, recorded population changed by 4.7%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

What net income per person is recorded for La Noria?

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Nerja municipality is €11,896 net income per person, for period 2023.

What is the recorded average age in La Noria?

INE records an average age of 46.7 years for Nerja municipality, for period 2023.

What is the simple mean of the published population observations used for La Noria?

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Nerja municipality is 21,021 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Which published period has the largest population value for La Noria?

Within the 9 displayed observations for Nerja municipality, the highest population value is 21,958 residents in 2023.

Property market evidence

What is the latest official sold-price snapshot for La Noria?

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Nerja municipality records €3,567 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

What foreign-buyer share is shown for the wider La Noria market?

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 16.0% for Andalucía in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

What is the earliest displayed La Noria regional foreign-buyer share observation?

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 14.3% in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

When does the current regional foreign-buyer share series for La Noria reach its maximum?

Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

What period span does the displayed quarterly transaction count evidence cover for La Noria?

The page uses 12 published observations for Nerja municipality, running from 2023Q3 to 2026Q2.

What does the first available regional house-price index point show for La Noria?

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 90.6 index points in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Housing stock and registrations

How many cadastral buildings are recorded for La Noria?

Dirección General del Catastro records 7,509 buildings for Nerja municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

How many dwellings are recorded for La Noria?

The current Catastro building extract records 16,693 dwellings for Nerja municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

What is the average recorded build year in La Noria?

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,984 for Nerja municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

How many energy certificates are recorded for La Noria?

The current official administrative extract contains 4,345 energy certificates for Nerja municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

How does registered tourism capacity compare with entry count in La Noria?

The official extract lists 21,037 registered places across 4,444 active entries for Nerja municipality, an arithmetic average of 4.7 places per entry. It is not an occupancy rate.

What share of cadastral buildings in La Noria is labelled 1970–1989?

The 1970–1989 band contains 4,347 recorded buildings for Nerja municipality, representing 58.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Current property inventory

How many properties are currently listed in La Noria on NLS?

The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for La Noria. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

Which property types are currently available in La Noria?

The current public inventory is: 1 villa. Only types with at least one eligible live listing receive an indexable area/type page.

What is the current asking-price range in La Noria?

Published asking prices in the current NLS inventory run from €585,000 to €585,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

Are inactive or private listings included in the current La Noria inventory?

No. The La Noria count includes only active listings that are eligible for the public NLS catalogue at the time the page is generated. Draft, withdrawn, private and feed-private records do not create a public area or property-type page.

How many villas are currently shown for La Noria?

NLS currently shows 1 eligible public villa for La Noria, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.

How to read these answers

Current listings and asking prices can change. Institutional figures update on their own publication cycles and may use municipality, province or autonomous-community scope. Compare unlike measures only after checking their stated geography and period. This page is market context, not a valuation, forecast, legal opinion or investment recommendation.